African American & Black Studies

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and...

Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and...

In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756092Author Kelly Brown DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

Harvard's searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination.In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. The...

Taking its title from a lyric by Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton, "Seems Liks Murder Here" offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and "hard times", blues songs and literature emerge in this...

What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do...

Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual...

A thorough account of Africa's history and its lasting influence on Western culture told from the perspective of the disparate descendants who inherited its legacy. W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the hidden stories that connect these varied communities. ...

Cain made the first blackface turn, blackface minstrels liked to say of the first man forced to wander the world acting out his low place in life. It wasn't the "approved" reading, but then, blackface wasn't the "approved" culture either--yet somehow...

Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster...

Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen...

A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study that should enhance our general understanding of mob violence and vigilantism."" -- Florida Historical...

Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of U.S. policy from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666783674Author Jacob W EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579106799Author Michael S. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595664061Author DC ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734710908Author Becky WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Cypress Knee PressPublisher Cypress Knee PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666783681Author Jacob W EliasFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546211334Author Ginetta V HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935514299Author Rupert W NacosteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Plain View Press, LLCPublisher Plain View Press, LLCWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788453885Author Juanita Patience MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book explores how political democracy, economic mobility (and lack thereof), cultural and demographic shifts have affected the making of racial identities in South Africa over the past two decades of freedom. To what extent do South Africans hold on...

Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy...

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this...

Brian Bridges examines the impact on South Korea of the financial crisis of 1997. Covering events up to and including the recent parliamentary elections in South Korea, the book considers the socio-economic and political implications of the financial...

Black Greek 101 analyzes the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations. The text provides a history of Black Greek organizations beyond the nine major organizations, examining the pledging practice, the growth of...

The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum,...

In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of ""the streets"" not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596294844Author John J. CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515143017Author Hinton Rowan HelperFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-pushing discipline, grown out of struggle and community action. Here, Abdul Alkalimat, one of the founders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986204743Author John McClaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544739205Author John WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

From Bernard Boxill, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and editor of Race and Racism, comes a tightly-argued, very illuminating book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Black/Africana...

The beginning of the twentieth century was a critical time in African-American history. Segregation and discrimination were on the rise. Two seminal African American figures began to debate on ways to combat racial problems. Booker T. Washington and W.E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498246934Author Michael S WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 404g

Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. We get to know the women individually as they discuss everything from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. We hear...